Glenn Seton Racing

Glenn Seton Racing

V8 Supercar Team
Short_name = GSR

Manufacturer = Ford
Base = Melbourne, Australia
Principal = Glenn Seton
Manager =
Drivers = Glenn Seton
Chassis = Ford Sierra, Ford Falcon
Debut = 1988
Drivers Championships = 2
Wins = 15
Poles = 18
Last Season = 2002

Glenn Seton Racing was a V8 Supercar racing team that competed in the V8 Supercar series in Australia.

Glenn Seton formed his own team in 1989, using Ford Sierras. Seton had been a protege of the works Nissan team, and took the Peter Jackson cigarette sponsorship of that team with him. Former F1 champ Alan Jones was secured as his team-mate late in 1992. The team was one of the first to debut the new V8 Touring Car regulation car in place of the Sierra. GSR were a top V8 Supercar team in the early V8 years and won championships in 1993. Glenn Seton came famously close to winning the Bathurst 1000 in 1995, retiring due to a broken engine valve spring whilst in the lead with only 8 laps to run. Glenn won his second championship in 1997, a win he regards as more impressive than 1993. The team was hugely underfunded and are the only one car operation to take out the title. The team became known by the new name "Ford Tickford Racing" in 1999, and Glenn recorded 8 podiums, finished =3rd. After Craig Lowndes signing to Ford, FTR steadily lost financial backing and the team gradually slipped in performance. Ford diverted their attention to 00 Motorsport in 2002, and GSR reverted to a small battling one car outfit for that year before being purchased by Prodrive and reinvented as "Ford Performance Racing" to promote the high performance road Falcons built by "Ford Performance Vehicles".


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